Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
May Drummond
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Standard Name: Drummond, May
MD
acquired huge fame (both celebration and opprobrium) as a Quaker minister and preacher beginning in the 1730s. She published only one identified slim volume of exhortatory letters and a pamphlet.
The writer of the preface takes up the cudgels for Centlivre in feminist style, dwelling on the obstacles she faced as a woman, and invoking the achievements of other women like Anne Dacier
, May Drummond
Timeline
September 1753
George Drummond
, Provost of Edinburgh (and brother of the Quaker preacher and writer May Drummond
), laid the foundation stone of the new Royal Exchange
there.
By March 1767
There was published in LondonThe Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Elizabeth Winkfield, whose mixed-race heroine recounts her life story.
